we have a slow-growing economy. despite those challenges, and the things that strikes me is some people are starting talk about a new normal. i think as citizens, as leaders of the enterprise, whether it is business or policy or politics, we owe it to the american citizenry to reject that new normal notion. i am here to tell you today that energy provides us an opportunity to do just that. people are already working on it, right? vice chair of the atlanta federal reserve board and monetary policy is doing everything they can do from a fiscal policy standpoint, a lot more work needs to be done. i consider fiscal policy right now. i want you to consider something that i live with everyday. when i consider the families we serve in the southeast, 48% of these families take less than $40,000 a day. these days -- these families make tough kitchen table decisions every day. the question i put to you and to myself and anybody ideal with, why can't we? i think we owe it to america to address these tough issues and and a way